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DEV: The Bug Stops Here

Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive.

The July issue is packed with Core chatter, support workflow wins, EmDash updates, and just enough nonsense to justify another 12 open tabs.

Stick around to the end to see Boomer, whose bark is way more adorable (and hilarious) than his bite.

In today’s edition:

• Hub Tickets turns client emails into actual tickets, because “I saw it somewhere” is not a workflow.
• WordPress 7.1 is already warming up, with collaboration tools, responsive styling, and a release date that lands during WordCamp US.
• Plus: plugin empire stats, AI burnout, dad mullets and some extremely charming handmade WCEU Wapuus.

Hot Off The Presses: What’s New?

If you’re the “Dave” of your team, you can feel this image. You solve ONE issue in a single night and instead of being rewarded with a nap in the sun, you’ve been promoted directly into the blast radius of the next one.

It’s a very dev life. Do something well once and suddenly it’s your specialty.

Fix a WooCommerce checkout issue? Congrats, you’re the payments department. Untangle a DNS mess? You are now the domain whisperer. Reply quickly to one client email? Wonderful, they now expect live chat energy forever.

Anyway, while Dave stares into the middle distance and Googles “how much sleep deprivation until the hallucinations start,” let’s see what’s new, weird, useful, and mildly alarming in WordPress this month.

Work Has Begun on 7.1